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Blue: The History of a Color
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Blue: The History of a Color Hardcover - 2018

by Pastoureau, Michel

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  • Title Blue: The History of a Color
  • Author Pastoureau, Michel
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition New
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press
  • Date 2018-03-20
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # OTF-S-9780691181363
  • ISBN 9780691181363 / 0691181365
  • Weight 2.5 lbs (1.13 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.7 x 9.4 x 1 in (24.64 x 23.88 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
  • Library of Congress subjects Blue, Color - Psychological aspects - History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 155.911

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From the rear cover

"Michel Pastoureau paints a massive canvas in which the history of one color becomes the history of culture itself. This is a study not of color as mere matter but as idea--presenting thousands of years of thinking in blue."--Michael Camille, author of The Medieval Art of Love and Glorious Visions

"Michel Pastoureau brilliantly uses the shifting meanings of blue to challenge a whole spectrum of assumptions about color and its symbolic value. . . . Thanks to this study, which is certain to become a classic, blue will never look the same again."--Jori Finkel and Jonathon S. Keats

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About the author

Michel Pastoureau is a historian and emeritus director of studies at the cole Pratique des Hautes tudes de la Sorbonne in Paris. A specialist in the history of colors, symbols, and heraldry, he is the author of many books, including Red, Green, and Black (all Princeton) and The Devil's Cloth: A History of Stripes. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages.